THE grieving process is in danger of being branded a medical condition if a mourner feels sad for more than two weeks and consults a GP, according to an international authority on death and dying.

At present, mourners can feel sad for two months before being told they have a mental disorder, says Professor Dale Larson. Decades ago, a diagnosis could be made after a year.

In a keynote address at an Australian Psychological Society conference in Melbourne on Saturday, Prof Larson will express his anger about the American Psychiatric Association's new diagnostic manual, DSM 5, which is used in many countries including Australia and New Zealand.

The manual, to be published in May, allows a diagnosis of depression after two weeks of grieving.

Emphasis mine. Sure the source may be Australian but it looks like this will apply to us as well. Now why on earth would American psychiatrists wish to see more people classified with mental disorders? Hmm... I can think of a few reasons.

Anyways, stepping out for a little while so don't think I just posted and ran.

Just speaking from personal experience and extensive conversations with perhaps one hundred other parents whose kids got killed in combat, it takes 2-3 years to come around a bit. Maybe four years and the clothes fit, thought not well.

One of those “born agains” that believe medical science is useless and would let your child die rather than taking antibiotics because “God wishes him ill because someone four generations back committed a sin”???

You are an idiot.

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posted on 02/23/2013 11:15:07 AM PST
by CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)

In my home town where I grew up...we had a mass shooting from three years ago. Wife, daughter, sister of the shooter, and son of sister...all shoot by the husband. Cops do your basic investigation, and wrap it up...just a mass shooting. Not discussion over what drugs he might have been taking, but some speculation that he was taking a fair amount of pain-killers. Might have been nice to take away his access, but would probably never occur.

Psychiatrists are how the gulag operated and the Stasi....You can make people “think” they are mentally ill. It is actually quite easy.

To allow strangers to label people on “soft” science is evil. Most psychiatry is bogus-—many psychiatrists are mentally ill and is why they go into the business. Good ones are few—and they can help....but most are “Whores of the Court” and bought and paid for by some drug company or political agenda.

It is how the APA is saying that sodomizing boys is “good” for them—like Rush brought up last month. The homosexual agenda is to make people think Good is Evil and Evil is Good and Up is Down.

It is how the APA took homosexual acts off of the mental illness list-—from political pressure—no hard science. In fact, the vile use of the body defies science and Truth. To promote the idea in “Pride” in sodomy in schools is destroying the Logic of children. They will be conditioned into insane “thinking”-—it is why liberals are mentally ill. They are not logical and can’t process the Truth.

It is insanity and will collapse culture-—to collapse Truth and destroy the concept of Laws of Nature (basis of USA). Psychiatry hides the Truth and labels—which is Marxist at its core. They destroy the concept of Virtue and Free Will-—which is necessary for Freedom and belief in God.

Yet another expample of just how trivial the members of our society and its leaders have become. I still think of my daughter who died as a child thirty years ago. True I have not taken to bed; but I would say I still mourn her and hope that I will see her again. Their position is NONSENSE!

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posted on 02/23/2013 11:23:47 AM PST
by AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)

I love Psychiatrists, don't you? I mean, come on! They prescribe wonderful drugs for anyone and anybody! It is a shame that many of the drugs cause so many maniacal mass murders, but, what the hell?.....sorry, I need more Soma...I'll be resting for awhile....

FMCDH(BITS)

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posted on 02/23/2013 11:25:07 AM PST
by nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)

One of those born agains that believe medical science is useless and would let your child die rather than taking antibiotics because God wishes him ill because someone four generations back committed a sin???

You are an idiot.

Are you that trusting of doctors and gov? My Mother was almost killed twice by govt regulations.

Grief is normal and we each deal with it our own way. If someone feels they need help with it, that is their way to deal. I lost my husband of 54 years and turned down my primary doctor’s offer of anti-depressents and I did just fine. I still miss him after 3 years but I am certainly not in a state of depression and do not believe that I was.
Church, family, friends and music did much to ease the loss, and relocation was also a big help. That’s what worked for me. But I know people who have been “on the couch” following the loss of a loved one. I believe it
may be various issues and not grief alone.

I love Psychiatrists, don't you? I mean, come on! They prescribe wonderful drugs for anyone and anybody! It is a shame that many of the drugs cause so many maniacal mass murders, but, what the hell?.....sorry, I need more Soma...I'll be resting for awhile....

FMCDH(BITS)

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posted on 02/23/2013 11:30:46 AM PST
by nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)

There are some psychiatrists (far and few between) that are of a more natural (holistic) bent. They are not prescribing the heavy drugs once thought the "only" way to aid with bipolar and schizophrenia symptoms.

And while prayer alone (barring a miracle) may not heal the suffering, it sure doesn't hurt to storm the heavens, as prayer is the only "pill" that provides true peace. That being said, St. Dymphna is a good saint to request prayers from. :)

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posted on 02/23/2013 11:33:36 AM PST
by mlizzy
(If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)

A very shy guy goes into a bar and sees a beautiful woman sitting at the bar. After an hour of gathering up his courage, he finally goes over to her and asks, tentatively, "Um, would you mind if I chatted with you for a while?"

She responds by yelling, at the top of her lungs, "NO! I won't sleep with you tonight!" Everyone in the bar is now staring at them. Naturally, the guy is hopelessly and completely embarrassed and he slinks back to his table.

After a few minutes, the woman walks over to him and apologizes. She smiles at him and says, "I'm sorry if I embarrassed you. You see, I'm a graduate student in psychology, and I'm studying how people respond to embarrassing situations."

To which he responds, at the top of his lungs, "What do you mean $200?!"

One of those born agains that believe medical science is useless and would let your child die rather than taking antibiotics because God wishes him ill because someone four generations back committed a sin???

You are an idiot.

Where in G Larry's post did he say that? There are idiots around here. It's not G Larry or me...hmmm, that leaves only one.

FMCDH(BITS)

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posted on 02/23/2013 11:43:04 AM PST
by nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)

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